Exploring the uncharted territory of social media: the next frontier of medical education in nephrology

Desai, Tejas; Sridharan, Sivakumar; Parada, Xavier Vela; Granado, Rolando Claure-Del; Orantes, Carlos M.; Madariaga, Hector; Penmatsa, Krishnam Raju; Basu, Gopal; Amare, Fernanda Arce

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“…The use of social media has gained recognition among scholars (19)(20)(21), because its use is associated with higher article citation (22)(23)(24) and increased accessibility of scientific evidence to the general public (25)(26)(27)(28). Considering these contributions, social media platforms are powerful instruments for health education (29)(30)(31) that diverse age groups can use daily to learn and share knowledge (32).…”

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An Overview of Social Media Use in the Field of Public Health Nutrition: Benefits, Scope, Limitations, and a Latin American Experience

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Social media platforms are low-cost tools that can be used to address issues in public health nutrition, especially in countries where health-related institutions experience economic limitations. We aimed to emphasize the benefits of using social media to promote health that have been documented to date. To show social media's positive impact on population health literacy, we briefly describe an inexpensive systematic communication strategy implemented in our research center through 2 social media platforms, the lessons learned, and the strategy's short-term results. Because social media use in public health is a new field of study, this perspective also focuses on the current limitations and gaps in evidence that need to be addressed to translate the best practices into policy recommendations. In conclusion, the perspective highlights the role that health actors and governments should take to maximize the benefits of social media use. Social media online platforms, such as Facebook and Twitter, are promising instruments to improve population health. In 2012, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched the global eHealth strategy to encourage the promotion, development, and evaluation of actions that involve these platforms (1,2). Social media can encourage citizen participation, optimize health systems, be an interactive space for science dissemination, support health policies, and promote healthy behaviors. This perspective emphasizes the benefits and limitations of social media, considering that they could effectively address public health nutrition problems.

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An Overview of Social Media Use in the Field of Public Health Nutrition: Benefits, Scope, Limitations, and a Latin American Experience

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“…The social media platform commonly used by nephrology practitioners and academicians include YouTube, Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, blogs. Many individuals, institution, and association utilize their dedicated servers to host their social media content [2]. Every interaction is under the control of the admin or subscriber of the server who decides the nature of the content.…”

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Neph E Club-Successful Social Media Learning Model-Six Years on with 1K Nephrologist as Members

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Periyaswamy³

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J Biomed Res Environ Sci

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Introduction: Social Media (SoMe) is used for the rapid dissemination of information and learning but has its limiting factors. An integrated learning model labeled “Neph E Club” was initiated in 2015. Various social media platforms were used to achieve the goal of SoMe education and lifelong learning. A retrospective study was done to analyze this education model. Methods: Six years of experience with Neph E Club’s social media education model allowed us to look back on the essential components of the SoMe model from 2015 to 2021. Objectives, member recruitment, social media platform, content development, and sustainability were among the aspects investigated and analyzed. Its benefits and downsides were also investigated. Results: For the past 6 years, WhatsApp has been used as a SoMe platform. Other approaches such as Twitter, YouTube, dedicated server, and email methods failed to meet the target during the 6 years. There are now 1018 active members in the WhatsApp group. Downloading nephrology education resources from numerous social media learning websites and conference content to construct a 3 TB digital library and 800 GB of developed and shared content. Members were kept informed daily by sharing information gleaned from the digital library. Topics are chosen based on data analysis and group requests. Students and practitioners shared their contents which included case discussion and initiating data collections. The success of this model is reflected by having shared 2550 Audiovisual (AV) Lectures, 26700 journal articles, and 182 case discussions. Viewership numbers on average reach from 1200 to 2500 per month which indicated multiple sharing. ISN India in his presidential speech in 2017 recommended this model. Conclusion: Neph E Club - Integrated model of learning using SoMe and offline digital Nephrology Library is a cost-effective, widely accepted model of learning in India.

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“…With the widespread use of SoMe platforms among physicians, the content of conference sessions can be shared in real time through tweets, Facebook posts or Instagram stories, for example [9]. Previous analyses of medical conferences show a trend towards a significant increase in both the number of tweets and of tweet authors in recent years, indicating that more subjects (doctors, nurses, medical or scientific societies, patients, patient organizations and pharmaceutical companies) are using the platform to participate in, change and influence, in real time, the process of a congress [9][10][11]. Importantly, both 'in-person' and remote attendees of a meeting can follow the meeting and generate interaction.…”

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Tweet me: conferencing in the era of COVID-19 and 280 characters

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Clinical Kidney Journal

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The ERA-EDTA Social Media team (SoMeT) provides twitter coverage of the annual congress. During the COVID-19 pandemic, #ERAEDTA20 was the first major nephrology congress to be delivered virtually. The effect of The SoMeT and the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic has not previously been explored. Tweets of the ERA-EDTA congresses 2016-2020, using official hashtags, were evaluated. Metadata of each tweet was collected prospectively; original tweets, retweets and evidence-based tweets were identified. The gender of tweet author and location of twitter activity were established. Network maps were created to ascertain the degree of polarization between the 2019 and 2020 twitter activity, using Gephi 0.9.2. Between 2016 and 2019, the total number of tweets and number of tweet authors increased as did the proportion of female authors (20% vs 27%). In 2019, there were fewer multimedia and evidence based tweets; 8% vs 20% in 2016. Globally, there were fewer nephrology conferences in 2020 and number of tweets per day reduced by 53% from 2019. In 2020, The ERA-EDTA congress saw an increase in authors of 9% and only an 8% reduction in tweets. It was easier to disseminate information, in 2020, measured by increased correlation coefficient (0.14 vs 0.12in 2019). A higher proportion of countries were represented (n = 55 vs n = 48 in 2019) and a higher proportion of tweets came from women. In conclusion, the introduction of SoMeT was associated with increased usage of twitter and ease of information dissemination. Compared with #nephtwitter activity as a whole in 2020, SoMeT has mitigated some of the pandemic deleterious effects in scientific dissemination, relevant to Nephrology.

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Exploring the uncharted territory of social media: the next frontier of medical education in nephrology

Cited by 8 publications

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An Overview of Social Media Use in the Field of Public Health Nutrition: Benefits, Scope, Limitations, and a Latin American Experience

An Overview of Social Media Use in the Field of Public Health Nutrition: Benefits, Scope, Limitations, and a Latin American Experience

Neph E Club-Successful Social Media Learning Model-Six Years on with 1K Nephrologist as Members

Tweet me: conferencing in the era of COVID-19 and 280 characters

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